Name: No Recover
Brand: Eric Bachmann

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Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

MRG628LPC1

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Discs

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Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: Yes

Format detail

Limited Edition Pressing on Blue and Black Swirl Vinyl in a Cardstock Inner Sleeve with Printed Lyrics plus Download.

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2018-09-07

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

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UPC / Barcode

0673855062808

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1 / Extended format: Yes / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

MRG628CD

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Extended format: No

Housed in a 4-panel Digipak and includes a poster-style folder insert with lyrics.

673855062822

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1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

Eric Bachmann

Genre GB

Folk

Label GB

Merge Records

There was something sinister about Crooked Fingers, both the name of the project and the music that Eric Bachmann wrote at the helm of its ever-shifting lineups over 15 years. He retired the moniker a couple of years ago, but with his third album under his own name, the transformation feels gorgeous and final and irreversible: No Recover.The drunken louts and red devil dawns are a thing of the past now, monuments to a different time. Bachmann, husband and recent father, has some new lenses through which to view the world. But while No Recover is decidedly mellow and reflective, do not mistake it for the work of a relaxed, satisfied songwriter, sitting on some Georgia porch with a stalk of wheat between his lips, gently rocking a cradle with his foot and whistling an old tune. No, the Eric Bachmann of 2018 seems to view life with a sort of disgruntled maturity and righteous resignation. No Recover is both harrowing and beautiful, and its mellowness can be deceiving. The album is mostly just him, a classical guitar, some treated rhythm tracks, and otherworldly drop-ins from singer Avery Leigh Draut and guitarist Eric Johnson, Bachmann's old pal from their Archers of Loaf days. He's got a lot on his mind, only some of it pretty. The sunset on the album’s cover might be the end of a cruel world for the duo in Jaded Lover, Shady Drifter, who introduce No Recover; they feel like flip-side lovers, both sonically and lyrically, of the couple at the center of Bring On the Snakes’ The Rotting Strip. But that dark sentiment is quickly reversed with Daylight, one of Bachmann’s most stunning vocal performances ever: For a guy who earned his stripes by shredding his vocal cords in the ’90s, he sure can croon. And though the words cast some shadows—“fight for your life,” he implores—ultimately there is hope. “If you try, you can be loved.” Same goes, to a less direct degree, for Waylaid, the record’s jauntiest song, and a meditation on failure and love that leaves room for Johnson’s bright-but-mournful electric guitar to take center stage. But leave it to Bachmann to save the best for last: No Recover ends with one song for his wife and another for his son. Wild Azalea, for Liz Durrett—who also makes a brief appearance earlier in the album—is pure ’70s AM gold, including the tinge of sadness that the best of that era embraced. And Dead and Gone offers wistful, Bachmann-style comfort to a child. It’s vulnerable and giving, a lifetime promise that somehow intertwines regret and hopefulness.

CD - Housed in a 4-panel Digipak and includes a poster-style folder insert with lyrics.

LP - Black Vinyl in a Cardstock Inner Sleeve with Printed Lyrics plus Download.

LP+ - Limited Edition Pressing on Blue and Black Swirl Vinyl in a Cardstock Inner Sleeve with Printed Lyrics plus Download.

No Recover

Music GB